1. Factors driving religious change, 2010-2020
Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the global religious landscape.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the global religious landscape.
Many in the region practice ancestor veneration and say it is important to follow traditional funeral practices.
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
72% of Americans say taking in civilian refugees should be an important goal for immigration policy in the United States.
As the nation’s post-Roe chapter begins and the legal battle shifts to the states, here are key facts about Americans’ views on abortion.
Most U.S. adults – including a solid majority of Christians and large numbers of people who identify with other religious traditions – consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for it. But highly religious Americans are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe.
But they hold differing opinions about what that phrase means, and two-thirds of U.S. adults say churches should keep out of politics.
Few pray daily, but many pray at least occasionally and offer respects to certain religious figures.
Americans increasingly say gender is determined by one’s sex assigned at birth, but they differ by religion on this and other transgender issues.
Very few Americans (5%) say that the way Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 attack against Israel was acceptable, but a somewhat larger share (22%) view Hamas’ reasons for fighting Israel as valid. Responding to a parallel set of questions about Israel, most Americans (58%) describe Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas as valid, but the […]
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